“Like a flower bud, human life has the potential to blossom fully. Blossoming of human potential to fullness is yoga.”
–Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Indian Spiritual Teacher and, in 1982, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation and the International Association for Human Values, 1956-)
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
–Denis Waitley (American Writer, Lecturer and Expert on Peak Performance, 1933-)
“Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of meaning and our place in the universe immediately changes. To be open to the possibility is to be a spiritual seeker, no matter what our religion. Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal.”
–Robert Thurman (American Buddhist Writer, Author, Found and President of the Tibet House and Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, 1941-)
“The ideal of man is to see God in everything, but if you cannot see Him in everything, see Him in one thing, in that thing which you like best, and then see Him in another. So on you can go.”
–Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic and Spiritual Teacher, 1863-1902)
“Making Peace With God: A Practical Guide” (Harold H. Bloomfield, Philip Goldberg)
“Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.”
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (French Cistercian Monk, Mystic, Theologian, Monastic Reformer and Political Figure, 1090-1153)
“Many people treat their bodies as if they were something rented from Hertz: something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.”
–Chungliang Al Huang (Chinese T’ai Chi Ch’uan Expert, Calligrapher, Author and Founder of the Living Tao Foundation, 1937-)
“What are things? They are God’s love become things. God communicates with us by way of all things. They are messages of love.”
–Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaraguan Catholic Priest and Poet, 1925-)
“Abide in Love’ in:
“Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life” (Frederic Brussat, Mary Ann Brussat)
“Acceptance of the oneness of the Universe is essential for those feeling fragmented and alone and lacking a sense of spiritual connection.”
–Meredith L. Young-Sowers (American Writer and Creator of the Stillpoint Model of Integrative Life Healing, 1944-)
“Agartha The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era” (Meredith Lady Young)
“There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not, sooner or later, responded.”
–James Russell Lowell (American Editor, Poet and Diplomat, 1819-1891)
“In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”
–Igor Stravinsky (Russian-born American Composer, 1882-1971)
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